Times Have Changed, India Tells US. As the US refused on Friday to drop charges against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade for alleged visa fraud, angry New Delhi asked Washington to understand that “times have changed”. The ongoing diplomatic spat between the two “friendly” nations (over the arrest of diplomat in New York) took a new turn, as Washington toughened its stance and ruled out dropping of the “very serious” allegations against Khobragade.
The Barack Obama administration made an announcement in this regard nearly 12 hours after the South Asian country demanded for all charges against the 39-year-old diplomat to be dropped. India also sought an “unconditional” apology from the US over the issue. According to Washington, Devyani Khobragade’s transfer to India’s Permanent Mission at the UN will not help her get diplomatic immunity retroactively. As a result, the visa fraud case against her would remain. India, which considers itself as an emerging power, has made it clear that the US should treat it with respect. Obama's Hawaii Vacation Home And The Luxury Rentals Of Kailua. For most of the country, a holiday vacation includes a trip to grandma's house, questionable eggnog and keeping warm under a dusty, old Christmas sweater.
But the Obamas are not "most of the country," and their holiday vacation is from a whole other world -- a warm, tropical and breezy world. On Friday, the presidential family will take off on their sixth annual winter vacation to the Hawaiian island of Oahu and their accommodations are laid-back luxury. While we can't cough up thousands of dollars a day as the Obamas do, we can surely admire (or obsess) over their tropical palace from afar. Below, feast your eyes on Obama's "winter White House" and other, similarly extravagant vacation rentals in Kailua -- the First Family's beach town of choice. The Not-So-Bad Back-Up This Asian-inspired oceanside estate became the Obamas's holiday home when their first-choice rental (which is only a few houses down) wasn't available in 2011 and again in 2012. The Winter White House The Swaying Palms.
Google Stock Hits $900 For First Time Ever. Google's stock topped $900 a share in early trading Wednesday for the first time in the company's history, less than three months after it hit $800 for the first time. The latest surge in the stock price comes as Google is expected to make several big announcements at its I/O developers conference this week, including a rumored new streaming music service, a major upgrade to maps and the possibility of new or updated smartphones and tablets. There have also been several positive reports for Google in recent days. Gartner put out a study showing that Android accounted for three-quarters of all smartphones sold in the first quarter of this year and Nielsen found that the number of users on Google+ and time spent on site have grown significantly year-over-year. The company's stock has been on an upward swing for months as Google has once again shown itself to be a major innovator in the tech space, with several promising breakthrough products like Glass and Fiber coming to market.
Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality. How to Solve the Top Pitfalls of Working From Home. Chinese workers dance Gangnam Style to protest over unpaid wages | World news. They have occupied factories and taken to the streets. But Chinese workers chose a more unusual form of protest when they highlighted their unpaid wages by dancing Gangnam Style outside the nightclub they had built. The construction workers from Wuhan said they had concluded it was the only way to draw attention to their problems. Confrontations over unpaid wages are common in the runup to the lunar new year, often the only time when migrant workers can return home.
Many fear they may never be paid if they leave their cities without their wages. The leader of the dancers, who gave his name only as Mr Lu, told the Wuhan Evening News that in total 40 workers were owed 233,000 yuan (£23,300). "There have been many creative protests over the last few years. Last year, children as young as five protested over their parents' unpaid wages, holding signs with slogans such as: "I want to eat, go to school, drink milk and eat biscuits. " Crothall said delayed payment was "absolutely routine".